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FBhruErg tte Twi:elfth: 

1912 



The 
After Dinner Club 



Moline, Illinois 




Thirty-first Dinner 

Moline Club, Monday, February 12, 1912 
at 6:45 p. m. 



Motto : 
You can't tell when knowing a man is going to 

come in handy. „ _, ,, ^^. 

— BraTider Matthetoi. 



Celery 



Knt living, brave and patriotic 
Gold i9 good in its place; but hvmg. 

men are better than gold. ^Abraham Lincoln. 

Menu 

Canape Caviar 
Cream of Tomato 

Olives Dill Pickles 

Loin of Pork with Baked Apples 

Asparagus Tips 
Mashed Potatoes 

Glazed Sweet Potatoes 

Shrimp Salad 

Swiss Cheese 
Mince Pie 

Coffee 

Salted Wafers 

Cigars 
The plainest print cannot be ^^^^ ^Xt^'^ncltt 






After Dinner 



Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the 
higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as 
worthy of protection as any other rights. Nor is it denied 
that there is, and probable always will be, a relation 
between labor and capital, producing mutual benefits. 

— Abraham Lincoln, 



ADDRESS 

"Abraham Lincoln" 
Mr. John H. Hanley 

Monmouth 
Illinois 



Our people are fast approaching the point where it can 
be said that seven-eighths of them are trying to find out 
how to live at the expense of the other eighth. 

— Abraham Lincoln. 



I have found that when one is embarrassed, usually the 
shortest way to get through with it is to quit talking or 
thinking about it, and go at something else. 

— Abraham Lincoln. 



Music 



1. March — "National Emblem" . Bagley 

2. Selection— "The Spring Maid" Reinhardt 

3. "My Beautiful Lady" .... Caryll 

(From "The Pink Lady") 

4. America Overture on National Airs Moses 

5. Selection from "Louisiana Lou" Jerome 

I (a) "Knock Wood" 1 
^- t (?>) "College Rag" [ * * ^'^^-^^^^^^ 

7. Medley Overture of Popular Songs Tobani 

8. "All the World Loves a Lover" . Gilbert 

(Song Hit from "Modest Suzanne") 

9. Finale — "Star Spangled Banner" 



I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too 
vast for malicious dealing. — Abraham Lincoln. 



OFFICERS 



President . . . Wm. A. Meese 

Vice-President . M. R. CARLSON 

Secretary . . . J. B. Oakleaf 

Treasurer . . . S. M. Howlett 

Executive Committee 
Dr. W. E. Taylor, Chairman 

Reception Committee 
C. P. Skinner, Chairman 



Abraham Lincoln 



Born in Hardin County, Kentucky, Feb- 
ruary 12, 1809. 

Died at Washington, D. C, April 15, 1865. 

He was descended from a quaker family of 
English origin, residing in the middle of the 
eighteenth century, in Berkshire County 
Pennsylvania. His grandfather emigrated 
trom Virginia to Kentucky about 1780. 

His father, Thomas Lincoln, settled with 

^''i?J?'^^i.''. ^''^'^''^ in 1816, and in Illinois 
m 18d0. His mother was Nancy Hanks. 
. r,f. ^^^.* ^^^ father's house soon after settling 
m Illinois, and after following many occupa- 
tions, he was admitted to the bar in 1836 
inim^'' ^^^ practice of law at Springfield 

He served first as Captain, and afterward as 
a private in the Black Hawk War, in 1832 
I y^^^ a member of the Illinois State Legis- 

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In 1858, as Republican candidate for United 
States Senator, he held a series of joint dis- 
cussions throughout Illinois, in which he took 
a pronounced stand against the institution of 

f\TZ' J^^'^ ^'^^^^' attracted the atten- 
tion of the country, and in 1860 he was 



nominated as a candidate for President by 
the Republican party. 

He received 180 electoral votes, and was 
inaugurated March 4, 1861. He was the six- 
teenth President. His election was the signal 
for the secession of the Slave States of the 
South and for the reorganization of the Con- 
federate States. Hostilities began with an 
attack by the Secessionists of South Carolina 
on the Federal troops at Fort Sumter, April 
12, 1861. On the 15th a call was issued by 
him for 75,000 volunteers. 

He proclaimed a blockade of the southern 
ports, April 19, 1861. 

On September 22, 1862, issued a proclama- 
tion emancipating all slaves in States which 
should be in rebellion on January 1, 1863. 

He was re-elected President by the Repub- 
lican party in 1864, receiving 212 electoral 
votes. He began his second term of office 
March 4, 1865. 

He entered Richmond with the Federal 
army, April 4, 1865. 

He was occupied with plans for the recon- 
struction of the South when he was shot by 
John Wilkes Booth, at Ford's Theatre, Wash- 
ington, April 14, 1865, and died on the following 
day at 7:22 A. M. 



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